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custom-defined alt+ctrl keys stop working after some time
Hi all,
I am using Windows 7 64bit. Using the MS Keyboard Layout Creator, I generated a customized keyboard layout in which I assigned certain special characters to keyboard combinations with the Alt and Ctrl keys, e.g. Alt+Ctrl+; to get the German letter 'ö'.
Everything works fine up to some point - for reasons I don't understand the keyboard assignments suddenly stop working: if I then press the corresponding combination, no keyboard output is generated at all. Strangely enough, this occurs individually for each program: for example, the shortcuts stopped working in, say, Firefox but may still be operational in, say, Word (or vice versa). Moreover, closing and restarting the program restores the proper keyboard function albeit only until the next occurrence of the problem. As I said, I haven't figured out why and how this happens; sometimes it takes a couple of hours, sometimes only minutes.
Did anybody experience similar problems, does anyone have a solution?
Thanks in advance and best,
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